Truly dreadful!

Rating: Null/10 (19 November 2002)

I went to this movie with high hopes, given that "trainspotting" is one of my favourite movies of all time. Also the subject matter sounded promising and I wanted to see London deserted.
However, after a good opening sequence in which the central character wanders around a devastated London discovering that almost everyone has been killed, the film degenerates into a farcical display of schlock horror and gratuitous violence with no centre, point or strong narrative direction. The "verite" camera work is shaky and imprecise meaning that half the time it is impossible to tell what is going on (not helped by very poor lighting). The acting too is pretty uninspired, especially the teenage girl who is quite terrible. She seems to have been poorly voice coached out of a Liverpool accent and consequently is too busy trying not to trip over her vowels to make any effort actually acting. I couldn't wait for it to end.